Alberta · Registered charity
FRINGE THEATRE ADVENTURES SOCIETY
FRINGE THEATRE ADVENTURES SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 17 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$844,132 to it, the largest being THE EDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PRIV ACT (C$646,010). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
FRINGE THEATRE ADVENTURES SOCIETY's revenue grew 19% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 380 arts nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fundshared funderslocal
- Rozsa Foundationportfolio match
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 18% · 2018 17% · 2019 17% · 2020 19% · 2021 67% · 2022 61% · 2023 33% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of FRINGE THEATRE ADVENTURES SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (10% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell C$155k → C$124k.
From the CRA filings of FRINGE THEATRE ADVENTURES SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FRINGE THEATRE ADVENTURES SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FRINGE THEATRE ADVENTURES SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 61% · 2019 75% · 2020 88% · 2021 84% · 2022 85% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of FRINGE THEATRE ADVENTURES SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
77% of FRINGE THEATRE ADVENTURES SOCIETY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$195k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from Alberta funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$649k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 regions is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 17 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fundshared funderslocalAB · backs 52 organizations that share your funders · funds 5 organizations near you
- Rozsa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Manitoba Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kingfisher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harry and Martha Cohen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Winnipeg Arts Council Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McCoy Family Charity Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beech Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Kootenay Regional Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William & Florence Lede Family Foundationshared fundersAB · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government revenue FRINGE THEATRE ADVENTURES SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 26% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like FRINGE THEATRE ADVENTURES SOCIETY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alberta
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRINGE THEATRE ADVENTURES SOCIETY?
- FRINGE THEATRE ADVENTURES SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 17 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$844,132 to it, the largest being THE EDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PRIV ACT (C$646,010). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRINGE THEATRE ADVENTURES SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 17 organizations giving C$844,132 in grants to FRINGE THEATRE ADVENTURES SOCIETY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRINGE THEATRE ADVENTURES SOCIETY?
- THE EDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PRIV ACT is the largest funder on record, with C$646,010 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRINGE THEATRE ADVENTURES SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alberta.
These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register